Well, the Anderson brothers are nowhere to be found, so we're off to look for any loot we could get our grubby little hands on as we actually do some detective work. www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4BM...
A well-made horror story creates anticipation, only to then subvert it and mess with its audience. That's all that's needed to make something scary: unpredictability. #AlanWake2 does it well enough, judging by the way Ria distrusts any new area she enters.
Today's episode has us meet a couple of relatives who might not have been our relatives before Alan began writing. If this is confusing for you, we're all in the same boat, buddy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zykg...
#DidYouKnow: Any fanfiction about the events of #AlanWake2 is recognized as semi-canon due to the alternate timelines introduced through Sheriff Tim Breaker. The less we talk about THOSE fics, the better. #FakeGameTrivia
On a different note, we finally get the screwdriver we apparently need to unlock several past areas. This sense of achievement should keep us warm as Taken chase after us in a dingy, dark amusement park. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1Sn...
Learning small details about your partner few others might be privy to is an incredible gift in any relationship. For example, Ria hates watery coffee. Which means she'll definitely hate Coffee World in Watery as she plays #AlanWake2.
Time to explore some more around Watery and see what new dangers might be lurk-- they can SPLIT IN TWO now? AND throw stuff at us? What fresh hell is this? www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_l4...
Cauldron Lake and its spreading influence on Bright Falls and the surrounding areas in #AlanWake2 is a pretty cool way of showing the growing danger that is the Dark Place. Conversely, stopping the flooding makes for an almost tangible feeling of breaking a curse, as it were.
Speaking of family, we're back with Saga in #AlanWake2 and it seems the story she's in has had some revisions concerning her relatives. Let's see if there are any answers in Watery. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSjd...
Celebrated Easter (the kind-of-difficult-to-explain-not-Catholic one) with some family today, which was quite nice, as far as long weekends go. What do you folks do on your extra days off?
Alan's part of the story so far reaches a literal peak in today's episode, as we finally make our way out of the subway and head over to his old apartment in what looks to be the tallest accessible building. Also, Ria gets spooked some more. www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZrA...
#DidYouKnow: One of the collectable manuscript pages in #AlanWake2 confirms that the Dark Presence is the offspring of the Nothing from The NeverEnding Story. #FakeGameTrivia
This is mostly what we'll be doing in our latest #AlanWake2 episode: making sure our boy gets better at surviving long enough to write another day. As long as Ria doesn't get scared, that is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbzi...
Be supportive of your partner when they need you. Offer them words of encouragement. Words of affirmation. Words of power. The words of power are especially important, because they'll allow your partner to upgrade their weapons, health, and damage, as well as provide other perks.
Hmmm, a dead detective, crazy cultists, shimmering shadows, burned bodies... Wait, is this a HORROR GAME? www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Nkx...
We've touched briefly on this a few times, both here and in our videos, but we quite enjoy how #AlanWake2 combines its metafictional narrative and environment puzzles. The scenery changing by rewriting plot points is visualized stunningly, adding to the already creepy atmosphere.
We're going deeper into Caldera Street Station. Let's see whether Alan, not unlike Alexander Hamilton, can write his way out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-Tm...
#DidYouKnow: #AlanWake2 was initially supposed to feature a typing minigame of some sort, but @samlakewrites.bsky.social decided against it out of concern it would become too similar to Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. Also, the planned typewriter-style controller didn't make sense. #FakeGameTrivia
Well, Ria has never met a question mark on a map that she didn't obsess over immediately. Look out, #AlanWake2, you're about to get combed for stuff! www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJeN...
Reframing a person's quirks could help you better understand them. They don't have FOMO; they're naturally inquisitive, sometimes to a fault. They don't love/hate horror; they enjoy the sudden rush of excitement when scared. They're not completionists; you just play games worse.
Today's episode has us find ourselves out of the TV studio and in New York. At least, a version of it created by the Dark Place. It seems, however, that Alan isn't the only one stuck in here... www.youtube.com/watch?v=YxrE...
Having a map in a videogame doesn't always make things easier to find, but this isn't that bad. Take #AlanWake2, for example. Updating your map might show you a few points of interest, but you still need to work out what is it you'll find: a word of power, a big stash, and so on.
It's Alan's turn to dip into the strangeness of the Dark Place. We make our way through a creepy late night show, find a janitor buddy, and get a cool little item to shine our path better. So far, so good? www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEnf...
No time like the weekend to have your plans change suddenly and out of nowhere. It's like flipping a switch, as you'd do with a light: one click, and all's both familiar and different. Boy, this post will read so weird to people who haven't played #AlanWake2.
As Ria finishes up the forest clearing (heh), it looks like we might be stepping into Alan's shoes going forward. Which is too bad, because all those missing storage keys are sure to nag at us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UuGu...
#DidYouKnow: Prolonged exposure to #AlanWake2 has been linked to increase in cool, noir-styled monologue whenever one might feel the need to narrate one's current predicament. #FakeGameTrivia
Exploring around in #AlanWake2 this time, which would technically count as a breather episode. You know, if you discount the possessed cultists and wildlife. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ6_...
Just because you might find your partner's otherwise innocuous hobbies a little strange doesn't mean you should make fun of them. It's not a big deal if they're into bird watching, reading YA fiction, enacting supernatural rituals with dolls, collecting fridge magnets, and so on.
Questionable adherence to forest floor realism aside, that was one of the more interesting encounters we've had since the start of our channel. And speaking of encounters, we finally meet a certain missing writer in today's episode. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhIs...
You don't really appreciate good level design until you find yourself struggling with basic stuff like the terrain. Ria having Saga get stuck during the Nightingale fight in #AlanWake2 was not too dissimilar to her bumping Wuchang against that rock when battling General Honglan.